The Pierre Bergé & Associés auction house offers a collection of photography books, assembled over the course of more than twenty years by an amateur photography lover.

The collection is comprised of monographs, photography books (some accompanied by original works), and exhibition catalogues. The auction will take place in Brussels, Tuesday, October 25, at 15h. The auction will be conducted by a representative of the law firm Leroy & Associés.

This collection of rare books offers an original look at contemporary art from the end of the 1950s to today.

From the 1960s and 70s: Joseph Beuys, John Baldessari, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Christian Boltanski (more than seventy books), Jan Dibbets, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Hamish Fulton, Gilbert & Georges, Sol Lewitt, Richard Long, Gerhard Richter, Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol, Richard Avedon, Raymond Depardon, Robert Frank, William Klein and Josef Koudelka.

From the 1980s and 90s are titles from several important artists who work exclusively in photography. The "Young British Artists" from the UK, Dieter Appelt and the German "Düsseldorfer Schule", Lewis Baltz, Matthew Barney, Claude Closky, John Davies, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Wim Delvoye, Olafur Eliasson, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Nan Goldin , Paul Graham, Andreas Gursky, Damien Hirst, Martin Parr, Sophie Ristelhueber, Thomas Ruff, Andres Serrano, Cindy Sherman, David Shrigley, Roman Signer, Thomas Struth, Jeff Wall, Joël-Peter Witkin and Erwin Wurm.

Several of the works will be sold by lot (two, three, four or more titles together) with a starting bid significantly lower than the combined estimated value of the individual items.

Lot No. 9
New York photographed by William Klein, Beat Streuli, Raymond Depardon (3 books)

Estimated value: 600 - 700€

Lot No. 13
Edward Ruscha, “Twenty six gasoline stations”
Alhambra: The Cunningham Press 1969 (1963), Paperback, 180 x 240mm
Third edition, 3000 copies

Estimated value: 300 - 400€

“Artists and Photographs”: face à l’évènement: 3 titles

Estimated value: 100 - 200€

Lot No. 98
Ils se disent peintres, ils se disent photographes: title of an important exhibition catalogue from the ARC/Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, 1980.
Collection of 17 titles.

Estimation 200 - 300€

Lot No. 10
“Artists and Photograph” New York. 19 titles in a slipcase illustrated by Dan Graham.
335 x 335 x 5 mm. First editions.

Estimated value: 6000 - 8000 €

Bernard P.Perrine
Bernard.Perrine1@orange.fr

Auction

Artists and photographs
Tuesday October 25, 2011, 15h

Place du Grand Sablon 40
1000 Bruxelles
T. +32 2 504 80 30
Fax + 32 2 513 21 65

Exhibition

A special tour of the collection in the presence of its owner: Saturday October 22, 11h

Friday, October 21 - Monday, October 24, 10h - 18h

Tuesday, October 25, 10h - 12h

Pierre Bergé et Associés
Valentine Roelants du Vivier
+32 2 504 80 36
vroelants@pba-auctions.com

Expert
Dirk Bakker
+31 625 000 420
info@dirkbakkerbooks.com